Aeneas Barkly

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Biography

London merchant, partner with Henry Davidson and Duncan Davidson (both of whom q.v.) in Davidsons & Barkly (q.v), awarded compensation for claims across the Caribbean.

1768-1836. Youngest of 5 sons of of Alexander Barkly merchant of Cromarty and Christian Urquhart daughter of Laird of Mounteagle. Became sugar merchant in London with Graham and Davidson (from 1807 Davidson & Barkly)*, was made his father's heir for paying debts of family farm, and inherited estate of Mounteagle following the Laird's death. Married Susannah Louisa Ffrith, daughter of a Jamaica coffee planter, in 1805. Died suddenly 17 August 1836.

Obituary of Sir Henry Barkly p. 23: AB of Monteagle Ross-shire, 'ruined by the Parliamentary legislation of 1838 [sic], left his family, on his death, in a financially embarrassed position'. Henry Barkly went to Demerara 'for the purpose of improving his property'.

Aeneas Barkley's [sic] daughter Louisa (born c. 1819) married William Reid, London brewer who left £120,000 in 1868.